Vancouver’s International Performance Art Celebration

Oct 5 & 6 highlights: VERB FRAU TV, artist talks, Mineki Murata, Lee Wen tribute, Lukas Avendaño, Kamikazee Nurse, Carmen Papalia Oct 5 & 6 highlights: VERB FRAU TV, artist talks, Mineki Murata, Lee Wen tribute, Lukas Avendaño, Kamikazee Nurse, Carmen Papalia

The final full day and evening – Saturday, October 5 – of LIVE 2019 programming began with another wonderful session of stretching and meditation led by VERB FRAU TV, artist talks, and the completion of Mineki Murata’s durational piece....

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Oct 5 & 6 highlights: VERB FRAU TV, artist talks, Mineki Murata, Lee Wen tribute, Lukas Avendaño, Kamikazee Nurse, Carmen Papalia

Oct 4 highlights: VERB FRAU TV, artist talk, Mineki Murata, Fatimah Jawdat, Thirza Jean Cuthand, Raven Davis, New Body Language panel with SUM gallery Oct 4 highlights: VERB FRAU TV, artist talk, Mineki Murata, Fatimah Jawdat, Thirza Jean Cuthand, Raven Davis, New Body Language panel with SUM gallery

VERB FRAU TV: Supporting – Day 2 Margaret Dragu and Sophia Wolfe led a group of artists and public through another morning of healing moving and not moving that included deep breathing, meditation, grounding, stretching, and dancing. View this...

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Oct 4 highlights: VERB FRAU TV, artist talk, Mineki Murata, Fatimah Jawdat, Thirza Jean Cuthand, Raven Davis, New Body Language panel with SUM gallery

Oct 3 highlights: VERB FRAU, artist talks, Mineki Murata, Preach R Sun, Jon Sasaki, Cheyenne Rain LeGrande, Adriana Disman Oct 3 highlights: VERB FRAU, artist talks, Mineki Murata, Preach R Sun, Jon Sasaki, Cheyenne Rain LeGrande, Adriana Disman

Thursday, October 3 was the first day of LIVE 2019 with full programming all day and night. This format continues on Friday, October 4 and Saturday, October 5: 11:30-13:00 – VERB FRAU TV: Supporting 13:00-14:00 – Artist lunch talks...

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Oct 3 highlights: VERB FRAU, artist talks, Mineki Murata, Preach R Sun, Jon Sasaki, Cheyenne Rain LeGrande, Adriana Disman

Oct 2 highlights: Tari Ito – LIVE 2019 Oct 2 highlights: Tari Ito – LIVE 2019

Tari Ito’s Before the 37 Trillion Pieces Get to Sleep In 1990, the activist and performance artist who was part of an important feminist movement in Tokyo, Japan — Tari Ito — performed The Memory of the Epidermis at...

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Oct 2 highlights: Tari Ito - LIVE 2019

Carmen Papalia Site is Confirmed Carmen Papalia Site is Confirmed

Carmen Papalia‘s performance will be walking through the PNE Park. Sun Oct 06 Meeting at the entrance of PNE Forum to start the Walk.  2901 E Hastings St, Vancouve( at the corner of Renphrew and Hastings ) at 15:45...

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Oct 1 highlights: Do Not Disturb – LIVE 2019 Oct 1 highlights: Do Not Disturb – LIVE 2019

Rochdy Laribi & Christine Bouvier’s Do Not Disturb performance LIVE 2019 officially kicked off the first performance of this year’s festival last night, October 1st, with Rochdy Laribi & Christine Bouvier’s Do Not Disturb at Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Patricia...

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Oct 1 highlights: Do Not Disturb - LIVE 2019

Preach R Sun’s performance Site Confirmed Preach R Sun’s performance Site Confirmed

On October 3, Thursday Preach R Sun‘s performance starts at 14:30 PM at Patricia Hotel Lobby. We start at there to walk down with the artist. Rain or Shine. Come to Join us !

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Sept 29 & 30 highlights and looking ahead to the rest of the fest: LIVE 2019 Sept 29 & 30 highlights and looking ahead to the rest of the fest: LIVE 2019

On Sunday, September 29 and Monday, September 30, LIVE’s 2019 three-day workshop concluded. Now we’re waiting in anticipation for the performance to come, which will happen at our Art Party on Tuesday, October 1st at Pat’s Pub! You’re invited!...

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Sept 29 & 30 highlights and looking ahead to the rest of the fest: LIVE 2019

ADRIANA DISMAN ADRIANA DISMAN

ADRIANA DISMAN Canada “Questions without answers must be asked very slowly.” -Anne Michaels The most ambitious ambition of my work is to create moments of livability. I understand the world-at-hand (“world” being a description of all matters affecting each...

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CARMEN PAPALIA CARMEN PAPALIA

Carmen Papalia Canada Carmen Papalia is a social practice artist who uses organizing strategies and improvisation to address his access to public space, the art institution, and visual culture. His work, which takes forms ranging from collaborative performance to...

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CHEYENNE RAIN LEGRANDE CHEYENNE RAIN LEGRANDE

Canada ᒥᐊᐧᐣ Cheyenne Rain LeGrande is a Nehiyaw Isko artist. Nanâskotam wikih the territories of the Musquem,Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Cheyenne is a part of the Skwachays Lodge artist residency program and has recently graduated from Emily Carr University...

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KAMIKAZE NURSE KAMIKAZE NURSE

Kamikaze Nurse Canada Kamikaze Nurse is a rock band featuring KC Wei, Ethan Reyes, Sonya Eui, and John Brennan.  Named after Simone Weil’s unfulfilled humanitarian death wish, the band formed in Spring 2018, and have released their debut LP,...

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LUKAS AVENDANO LUKAS AVENDANO

Lukas Avendaño Mexico In a contingency my mother gave me birth in a land surrounded by mosques in Tehuantepec, the midwife put a machete to heat the fire and when a red reed was already red, I cut my...

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VERB FRAU TV VERB FRAU TV

VERB FRAU TV VERB FRAU TV SEASON 8: With Sophia Wolfe & Margaret Dragu SUPPORT-ing an intimate & live-streamed (almost) daily morning self-care practice for artists, culture workers, and friends-of-same With movement + no movement chair yoga + mindfulness...

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PREACH R SUN PREACH R SUN

Preach R Sun USA Preach R Sun is a U.S. based conjurer and ‘fugitivist’ — “implementing social issues and political activism as performance matters”. Sun, working at the interface of art and activism, essentially describes himself as an activist...

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RAVEN DAVIS RAVEN DAVIS

Raven Davis Canada My practice has no boundaries; I renounce institutional limitations of eurocentric pedagogy and accreditation and honour Indigenous theory, methodology and practice. I am a nomadic creator and maker of art, examining topics through installation, visual, sculpture...

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THIRZA JEAN CUTHAND THIRZA JEAN CUTHAND

Thirza Jean Cuthand Canada The Future Is So Bright Cuthand’s work often deals with issues related to Indigiqueer/2 Spirit love, communities, and sexuality. She is currently grappling with larger issues of imminent climate change and it’s effects on multiply...

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